The latest death brought to 63 the number of protesters and bystanders killed in two months of violent protests in the mainly Muslim region of indian Kashmir, most of them young men or teenagers shot dead by security forces. The 28-year-old who died on Monday had been wounded during clashes in northern Baramulla district on Aug. 14 and died in a local hospital, police said.
Residents said the death had led to new protests, where hundreds of people blocked the main highway in the dead man’s village of Singhpora.
The scenic Kashmir region has been under rolling curfews to contain deadly protests that were sparked by the killing June 11 of a teenage student in Srinagar by a police teargas shell.
Anti-India demonstrations at five places in southern Pulwama district late Sunday left 31 policemen injured, including the district police chief, police said. One protester was also hurt.
Heavily militarized Indian-administered Kashmir has been the scene of a deadly insurgency for the past two decades.
Many commentators attribute the latest protests to frustration among the young generation because of deadlock in talks about the status of disputed Kashmir and high unemployment.
Meanwhile, suspected rebels shot and killed three people in Kashmir, including a mother and her teenage daughter, police said Monday.
Masked militants barged into a house in Nandimarg, a remote village south of Srinagar late Sunday and opened fire, killing the woman and her 15-year old daughter, a police statement said. The target of the attack was Sirajuddin Gorsi, who jumped from a window and escaped, said a police officer.
Gorsi could have been targeted for his alleged links with the Indian Army, the officer said. Police said the victims were his wife and daughter.
Separately, suspected militants killed an activist of the state’s ruling National Conference party in Pulwama district late Sunday, the statement said.
